Rail-fastening for concrete ties



E. ROGERS.

RAIL FASTENING FOR CONCRETE T|ES. APPLICATION FILED mm. 1920.

1,358,468, Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

UNITED STATES EDWIN ROGERS, 0F AURORA, ILLINOIS.

RAIL-FASTENING FOR CONCRETE TIES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented N 0v." 9, 1920.

Application filed April 5,1920. Serial No. 371,238.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWIN Rooms, acitizen of the United States, residing at Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, hav invented a certain new and useful improvement in liail-Fastenings for Concrete Ties, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to railroad track equipment particularly that in which concrete ties are used for supporting metallic rails, one form of such ties being shown in my prior Patent No. 1,201,9041, dated November 14, 1916. The object of the invention is to provide a comparatively simple, yet very positive mechanism for positioning the rail upon the tie and bracing it so that it cannot possibly move laterally of its normal track position. 'The invention consists in means for carrying out the foregoing ob jects which can be easily and cheaply made, which is satisfactory in use and is not readily liable to get out of order. More particularly the invention consists in features and details of construction hereafter more fully set forth in the specification and claims.

Referring to the drawings in which similar numerals represent the same parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a plan. viewor" mechanism illustrating this invention in its preferred form.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the mechanism shown in liig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the structures of Figs. 1 and 2 part of the tie being in section.

Fig. i is an alternative construction of the central portion of Fig. 1.

The tie 10 shown in the drawings is made of concrete, with or without the special features of my prior patent and has embedded in its end portion at least and preferably running its entire length. parallel bars or rods 12 forming a U-shaped loop 1% outside of the end of the tie. Driven into loop 1 1 is a vertically extending wedge 16. Lying upon the end portion of the tie 10 secured in place by the wedge 16 is a metallic base plate 20 extending from the wedge to a point beyond the rail 22 which rests upon this plate. This plate 20 is provided with a notch 24 in which the rail 22 rests and at its end with an upwardly turned flange 26. The plate is also provided with suitable perforations 28 and 30 through which opposite ends of the V-shaped securing bolt 32 pass from the plate down theside ot the tie and around a horizontal bottom cross bolt34. ()iie end of each member 32 is provided with an eyelet 36 through which passes a brace rod 38 more fully described hereafter. lhe other end of the member 32 is provided with a nut 10 hearing on a washer l2 which 1n turn is engaged by the compression spring/1d bearing partly on the rail flange and partly on the portion of plate 20which is adjacent to flange 26.

In assembling the parts the bar 38 is inserted through eyelet 36 on one side of the rail and the nut 40 is tightened up to make sure that the securing device 32 is tight.

Each bar 38 carries an annular lug 46 which rests in a lateral notch e8 lying between and abutting an upwardly turned ear or lug 50 formed on the edge of the plate 20 adjacent to the wedge 16 and a corresponding'lug 52 on a cross plate 53 laid over plate 20 and carried by a pin or bolt 57 entering and embedded in the cement of the tie.

As is clearly shown in the drawing, one of these securing devices 32 is located adjacent to each side of the tie and they are connected together by the bolt 34: which may be tightened up by the nut 51. Where two rails 53 and 55, shown in Fig. 1, abut each other along the line 56, on top of the tie, an electric rail bond result may be obtained by placing a connector bar 58 under the nuts 40 on the opposite adjacent securing devices, 32. The result of the above construction is that the plate 20 is rigidly secured against lateral movement of the rails and longitudinal movement along the tie is prevented through the agency of the wedge 16 held in place by the rods 12, and the rail is held against lateral movement of the traclr first by hearing against the loops 36 which project above the plates 20 and second by the bracing bars 38 which carry the strain from the rail web to the ears 50 and 52.

The device is of especial advantage in that it allows the rail to creep as necessary over the tie under the members 38 and 14; without endangering its being held against lateral movement.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In mechanism of the class described, a

tie, a plate on top of the tie, a Wedge at the end of the tie, holding the plate against movement off from the tie, a rail and'means for securing the rail to the plate.

2. In. mechanism of the class described, a railroad tie and intersecting rail, a plate under the rail resting on the tie and extending to its end, tension rods embedded in the tie, and means connecting said tension rods to the end of the plate, for the purposes set forth. a 8. In mechanism of the class described, a

tie, a plate upon the tie, means locking the plate against'movement 06 from the end of the tie, a rail across the tie and plate, J'- shaped straps on opposite sides of the tie, passing around a common connecting bar below the tie, spring clamp mechanism securing one end of each \!-shaped member to the rail, eyelets on the opposite ends of the V-shaped members, rods extending through said eyelets, engaging the rail at one end and positively attached to the plate at the other end, securing the rail in place with reference to the plate.

4:. In mechanism of the class described, a railroad tie having tension rods embedded therein, and forming a loop 14 at the end of the tie, a wedge 16 entering said loop, and extending above the end of the tie, a

plate EZO'resting on the tie against said' 34: under the tie engaged by members 32 and means for detachably connecting the ends of said members 32 which are on the side of the rail farthest from the end of the tie, to the tie and plate, all of the parts being arranged and disposed, as shown and described for the purposes set forth.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN ROGERS.

Witnesses:

DWIGHT B. CHEEVER, ANNA RosENTHAL. 

